Dislocation and Contrast

Beth 2022-04-20 09:02:48

The Jewish boy taught the Nazi captain in pseudo-Persian with Jewish names as his personal tutor. The interesting part of the plot lies in the dislocation and contrast:

First, from the perspective of the captain, there are many moments of warmth between the two, but the protagonist who cannot help but feel the risk that his identity will be revealed at any time, the sadness of sitting and watching the death of his compatriots, and the sad irony of being an insider.

The second is "this language is so beautiful" vs "they are just nobody".

The third is that the components of the extremely evil regime also have ordinary daily life, and the captain confesses his innocence and has a mild temperament, but the protagonist points out this hypocrisy sharply. The film gives a glimpse into the operation of power within the Nazis. There are two times when the bottom of the Nazis informed each other. One was love and hatred. The colonel's lover was sent to the front line by his colleague and rival for revealing his biological privacy. The second was hatred, sergeant Reported the fact that he was raising a family to his superiors, but the result was different, and he was attacked instead. The upper class unites into a solid power class and defends each other, and when publicly challenged/taunted/explained, they will respond in unison to the lower ones who come to offend, intentionally or unintentionally. Power is omnipresent: soldiers beat prisoners for no reason, captains shoot soldiers and rob prisoners regardless of process. In the end, the captain could also plan early to get on the plane and escape. Obviously, "loyalty" is just a rhetoric. The movie itself is relatively flat, except for a few more ingenious designs, such as the "misunderstanding" caused by moaning and moaning all night in pseudo language during the illness, and the "misunderstanding" caused by the double interpretation of raji. Complicated...too simple and crude (.

The ending is neat, with the little mouse-like protagonist and the captain moving to different moments. Although it is moving to recite a little poem of pseudo-words, but a massacre is a massacre after all. Such moments and effects are too rare to cover the fear and cruelty.

By the way, there are still a lot of small skills to learn in the film. The captain learns words with flashcards, and the protagonist later recites words, and also uses associative memory method/connection of familiar knowledge/picture memory (. The previous supplementary setting said that only I don't know how to write everyday words, otherwise I thought it was even my own creation. The big difference in learning foreign languages ​​is grammar, word order, and often the overall way of thinking, and is it simply spelling words when making sentences? Doubt...

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Persian Lessons quotes

  • Klaus Koch: [Koch took Gilles back after he was put to move to another camp] You would risk your life for those nameless people.

    Gilles: Those aren't nameless. Just because you don't know their names. At least they aren't murderers.

    Klaus Koch: I'm not a murderer.

    Gilles: No. You just make sure that the murderers eat well.

  • Klaus Koch: As long as you work for me nothing will happen to you. I bet 20 cans of meat that nothing will happen to you.

    Gilles: Too bad I won't be able to eat them since I'll be dead.